Herne Hill Harriers ladies team followed up second place in last weekend’s Surrey Road Relays with an exciting win at the Will Bolton cross-country relays.

Held at West Wickham over 4x4km stages, Harriers’ ladies A team led from the start courtesy of a fast opening leg run by Katie Snowden, whose 14 minutes 40 seconds was fastest female run of the day.

With excellent second and third stages run by veteran Nikki Sturzaker (16:38) and U17 Ella Newton (15:57), Harriers were still in front when Steph Mitchell took began the anchor leg.

Although she was chased hard, her time of 16:57 was just enough by six seconds.

Not to be outdone by their older club mates, Herne Hill young athlete teams cruised to a clean sweep of team victories.

Mohamed Mohamud, Ben Harris and Mohammed Ali were first across the line in the U15 boys' race; Jacob Alley, Jacob Harrison and Jaden Kennedy won the U13 boys' category; Katie Balme, Lily Newton and Eimar Griffin the U15 girls relay; and Jessica Tabraham, Lyla Willkinson and Rosie Hammond were U13 girls winners.

Mohamud ran the second fastest overall time in the youngsters' race, with Newton running the fastest girls' time with only three boys in the race clocking quicker times.

The club’s senior men's A team placed fifth with new U17 member Laurie Pope setting us off with a good first leg (14:18), followed by a returning Chris Busaileh (13:47), Mohammed Ismail (13:41) and Jeff Cunningham (14:03) completed the team.

The ladies' B team were sixth and the men's B team placed 12th overall.

Elsewhere, Harriers' England javelin international Gavin Johnson-Assoon's recorded a personal best throw of 68.31m at the Loughborough javelin carnival meeting on Sunday - ranking him eighth in the senior men’s javelin in the UK this year.

Meanwhile, Harriers relay teams were successful in 12 of the 14 races contested at the Surrey County Champs at the weekend - individually, Adam Hawkins won the U15 boys' pentathlon.

Among the dozen relay wins were three club records and four championship bests.

Club records were set in the following categories: U13 girls' 4x100m (52:02), U13 girls' 4x200m (1.51:3) and U17 men 4x200m.

Championship best performances were recorded by Harriers club teams in the U13 girls' 4x100m, U13 girls' 4x200m, U17 women's 4x100m and U17 women's 4x200m.